PSYCHONAUTS 2
After raising $4 million through
crowdfunding Tim Schafer is
making a sequel to his cult
platformer. Psychonauts 2 will
continue the story of Raz, a
gifted psychic with a dream of
joining the titular Psychonauts,
a team of elite secret agents.IMPERATOR: ROME
The next epic from Paradox
promises to let you change the
course of history in the ancient
world. Featuring trade,
rebellions, provinces, barbarian
attacks, and countless other
deep systems, this is a strategy
game on a grand scale.IN THE VALLEY OF
GODS
The next game from Firewatch
creator Campo Santo is
something different. Set in ’20s
Egypt, you play as Rashida, a
filmmaker hunting for fame and
fortune among the ruins and
sand dunes of the desert.UNTITLED GOOSE GAME
“It’s a lovely morning in the
village... and you are a horrible
goose.” This perfectly
encapsulates the character of
the goose: a wilful jerk who
terrorizes villagers by stealing
hats, stealing sandwiches, and
honking loudly.Always bring a
chainsaw to an arm
mounted
flamethrower fight.2019 Preview
FEATURE
DOOM
ETERNAL
T
he shotgun has a
grappling hook. Let us
repeat that. The shotgun.
Has a grappling hook. In
the debut footage shown
during last year’s QuakeCon, we see the
returning Doom Slayer’s newfound
mobility in action, as he jumps
backwards off a ledge, grapples towards
a floating cacodemon and gives him both
barrels in midair.Naturally this is very exciting, and not just
because it’s a shotgun with a grappling
hook. It shows that id Software is giving usmore of what made 2016’s Doom so great:
Up-close-and-personal gunplay that
encourages you to always push forward,
closer to the horde. Doom’s melee system
was a revelation, and so the fact that
Doom Eternal will offer more ways to jump
into the fray suggests that id knows
exactly what it’s doing.
We’re on Earth for the sequel, but—
surprise—the planet has been ravaged by
the demon horde. All of your enemies are
‘destructible’, meaning you’ll get to see the
armor, limbs, and features of imps, hell
knights, spiderdemons, and other
hellspawn be obliterated as you shoot.
More interesting than the advanced
hell-gore, though, is the fact that some of
those demons may be other players. An
optional system will let groups of players
invade your game—taking control of
demons and using their powers to try to
bring you down.ID SOFTWARE
IS GIVING
US MORE
OF WHAT
MADE 2016’S
DOOM SO
GREAT